The New York Photo Festival in Dumbo was the place to be this weekend for anyone interested in contemporary photography. That’s why I was surprised to see a 1922 historic carved wood carousel completely rehabilitated to it’s original condition among the the photo galleries in the waterfront area of Brooklyn, under the Manhattan Bridge overpass.

Along the Gulf Coast of Texas, a mysterious variety of ants is ruining more than just picnics. The pests, about the size of fire ants, invade just about everywhere, from back yards to circuit breakers, where they can cause electrical shorts.

In a major report published Friday, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) says that Earth’s wildlife populations have plummeted by about 25 percent overall since the 1970s, despite increased awareness about the importance of biodiversity.

In a recent French public-radio broadcast, Belgian-born City Opera director Mortier was a little more blunt about his NYC opera neighbors, more so than he’s revealed to the American media. Read the story…

Amid global concerns over food prices, the Senate approved a $290 billion dollar farm bill Thursday with enough support to overcome a threatened presidential veto. A reporter outlines facets of the bill and its implications for U.S. food and agriculture policy on NewsHour.

NY Voices did a walk-through of NYC gardens throughout the 5 boroughs with the authors of Garden Guide: NYC; watch it here. In one of the guides’ gardens this week a 65-foot sculpture was dismantled, and the garden may disappear as well.

Curator Naomi Beckwith guides the viewer through this broad show of young African modern artists, designers and architects, which runs at the Studio Museum though June 29.

Researchers at the New York Botanical Garden are coordinating an ambitious new project that will create a database of DNA information from the world’s tree species, according to an AP report. Known as TreeBOL, or tree barcode of life, the project will keep track of where tree species are located and whether they are at [...]

Nature producer Fred Kaufman and cinematographer Paul Atkins discuss the rarity of catching a lava flow as it hits the ocean–and the perils involved in shooting such an occurrence. See some of the footage from the shoot, too….

Reality check: The Tony Awards aren’t about theater in New York — they are about a certain kind of theater in New York, namely the expensive, mainstream one found on Broadway. But there’s a lot more in NY than the Great White Way…
For instance, one of the most inventive musicals of the season is “The [...]